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1893 in poetry
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1952 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Soviet Union, including several poets. November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s begins at Downing College, University of Cambridge: Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends – Tony Davis and Neil Morris – dissatisfied with the way poetry has been read aloud in the university, decides to place a notice in the undergraduate newspaper Varsity for people interested in forming a poetry discussion group.
1965 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1917 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January — Philosopher Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian) titled "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasizes eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points).
1890 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, , A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.
1894 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897). June 22 — Nina Davis' first published translation from medieval Hebrew poetry into English, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appears in The Jewish Chronicle. November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earns $15.
1892 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin. A. C.
1981 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). American poet Jane Greer launches Plains Poetry Journal, an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine published in the United States. First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published in the United States. This year, "the word 'Martianism' comes into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the 1982 Britannica Book of the Year reports (p.
1907 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner, English-born French poet Renée Vivien, for another woman. Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems Robert W.
1975 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 return, and this year many begin publishing in that country. Radical Australian poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection Rapunzel in Suburbia, triggering a successful libel action by her lawyer ex-husband Lloyd Davies.
1984 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticizes the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he is dismissed from his post.